Starman Page #7

PARTNER (V.O.)

Come on. I'm getting wet.

DRIVER (V.O.)

It musta been a bird.

PARTNER (V.O.)

How about if I drive now?

Behind the faceplate a piece of white light breaks off from

the shining mass in the STAR MAN'S head and moves down his

neck. Through the hole in the suit we see it arrive at the

top of his single lung. The white light spreads throughout

the organ like a phosphorescent tide. The STAR MAN lapses

into unconsciousness as we hear the truck pull away.

INT. HELICOPTER (COCKPIT) - DAWNBREAK

A light rain is falling.

We are looking through the windscreen at the gray landscape

passing under the helicopter. MARC SHERMIN, a grizzled man

in his mid-fifties with an honest stubborn face, shifts his

attention from the right side to the left side of the craft.

Below him he can see the road leading into the housing tract

is blocked by police cars. The helicopter leans into a banking

turn and the spacecraft's blackened landing site comes into

view. Below it an orange nylon tent has been erected over

the dead extraterrestrial. It glows from the inside. An Air

Force helicopter is parked on the other side of the burn.

EXT. HOUSING TRACT - DAWNBREAK

A man in a white contamination suit is helping Benny and the

two officers into the Air Force helicopter. The three men

are glassy-eyed and wrapped in blankets. Benny has a bandage

across his chest. They look up at Shermin's descending

helicopter. They are still looking at it when they disappear

inside.

Shermin's unmarked S65 settles on the clearing. The nose

door is open and Shermin, carrying the hood of his

contamination suit, comes down the ladder. A tall homespun

man, also in a hoodless contamination suit, steps forward to

greet him.

MAN:

(around a cigarette)

Major Aaron Bell...

SHERMIN:

Marc Shermin, National Security

Agency.

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